Belliveau’s Cove Tidal Flats EarthCache

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Hidden : 8/12/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

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The word “tides” is used to refer to a natural phenomenon that occurs when the moon uses its gravatational force (known as Tractive Force) to try to pull everything from Earth to the moon. Out of all the objects found on Earth, there is only the water on Earth that is continuously moving, therefore the moon cannot pull anything except for the water. Actually, water in large lakes, the air in the atmosphere, and magma within the Earth’s crust are always in motion as well, so tides can also be observed in these objects, but on a MUCH SMALLER scale. This gravatational force between the moon and the sun (when the moon pulls upward on the water and the Earth pulls downward) results in the sea level rising and falling continuously, also known as LUNAR TIDES.

On most days there are two low tides and two high tides. There is approximately 6 ¼ hours between a low tide and a high tide, therefore there would be approximately 12 ½ hours between two low tides or two high tides. I say “most days” because some days may actually only experience 1 ½ cycles, such as two low tides and one high tide, or two high tides and one low tide.
For example, if, on Mother’s Day, high tide occurs at 6:00am, low tide would occur at approximately 12:15pm, and high tide would occur again at approximately 6:30pm. If you’re keeping up on the math, then low tide would reoccur at 12:45am the next morning, thereby giving you only two high tides and one low tide on Mother’s Day.

There are two types of tides: the Spring Tides and the Neap Tides.
Spring Tides have absolutely nothing to do with the Spring Season. During the Spring Tides (during full moon or new moon), the Earth, the Sun and the Moon are in a line, causing greater gravatational pull and much higher and lower tides.
Neap Tides occur during the First Quarter and Third Quarter phases of the moon, when the Moon and the Sun are at 90° to each other, relative to the Earth. Their “forces” cancel each other out, creating smaller tides.
Spring Tides and Neap Tides are about 20% higher or lower that the regular average tides.

There is also a third type of Lunar Tide called the PROXIGEAN SPRING TIDE. It occurs only every 1 ½ years when the moon is at its very closest to the Earth AND when it’s in its New Moon Phase. This causes unusually high tides.

Due to the shape of the Bay Of Fundy, it experiences the highest tides in the world (a range of approximately 44.6 feet).
Although Belliveau’s Cove, NS doesn’t usually experience tides of 44.6 feet, it is still however, located along the Bay of Fundy and can experience tides of 28 feet. When the tide is out (low tide), this area is popular for clamming.

For more information, please visit: (visit link) (information on tides)
or (visit link) (Church Point tide table. For Belliveau’s Cove tide table, add approximately 25 minutes to the time listed for the Church Point tide time.)

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS EARTHCACHE:
1) Park at the Visitor Information Centre or the First Acadian Cemetary and Chapel, and use the boardwalk walking trail to walk to posted coordinates.
2) Take a picture of you and/or your GPS at the information board (where the posted coordinates lead you) at HIGH TIDE. Please state the date and time of the picture.
3) Return at LOW TIDE and walk out to the water’s edge and take a picture of you and/or your GPS and the information board in the distance. Please state the date and time of the picture. Since this is a relatively flat area, the distance to the water’s egde can be long, so the tides don’t come in or out too fast. However, remember to be respectful of the tide coming in and going out.
4) In your log, please include the date and time of both your pictures (high and low tide), as well as the distance you walked from the information board to the water’s edge.

Logs that do not meet these requirements will be deleted.

On August 15th, 2008, I received more information from 6paws. I'd like to share it with everyone:
[Anyway ... I was asking why is it such a small tide for a big moon - as your write up suggests the full and new moons, in line with earth and sun, should be making huge tides. What I found out was that in this area in the summer, when this line up occurs, it only makes a huge tide on the new moon, not the full moon. In the winter in the same line up conditions, the huge tides occur on the full moon not the new moon. Can only figure it has to do with our geographic location and the everchanging tilt of the earth. This last tidbit is new information to me and helps explain why with the sun and moon and earth in a straight line, the tide is no so great today ...]

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